@avimayer @amirmizroch I never said that the photo was new, as Palestinian terrorists have been firing rockets at our cities for years.

Palestinians and Israelis have resorted to dubious tactics in their propaganda war amid four days of cross-border violence between Gaza and Israel, which has claimed the lives of 23 Palestinians. Since fighting began last Friday both sides have circulated old photos and videos purporting to be from the current escalation in a bitter battle for hearts and minds. On Monday the Israeli Defence Forces blog called out Palestinian activists for circulating old images via Twitter and Facebook, purporting to be recent. However, only hours later Israeli defence spokeswoman Avital Leibovich herself, was caught circulating an old video of a Palestinian rocket launcher in action. Read about the weekend’s violence here.

On Saturday evening hundreds of Twitter users shared this photo of an injured girl in Gaza, purporting to be the victim of a rocket attack by Israelis.

Honest Reporting , a pro-Israeli organisation working against biased media coverage of Israel, uncovered that the original source of the photo @KhuloodBadawi is an employee of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs. It called for “the immediate dismissal of Khulood Badawi on the grounds of incitement”.

One of the Palestinian Twitter users, who had helped spread the image, On Sunday issued an apology and clarification about the origins of the photo:

Nablussi later removed the photo, which shows an Israeli airstrike on Gaza as part of Operation Cast Lead in January 2009, from her Facebook wall. However, she followed it up with photos of Palestinian victims of the current violence.

Instead Nablussi posted and then tweeted this photo showing Ayoub Asalya, a 12-year-old boy who was killed during the rocket attacks on Saturday, with grieving relatives in the morgue of Kamal Edwan hospital on Sunday.

Just hours after Monday’s blog post by the IDF, detailing the misinformation spread by Palestinians, Palestinian blogger @ANimer returned the favour when he pointed out that this tweet by Israel’s defence spokesperson, Avital Leibovich, showed a video that was first uploaded to YouTube last October.

Before I end, I must point out this tweet came hours after this post on the IOF blog. The Israeli army propagandists are gleefully congratulating themselves after proving a photo of an injured girl was from a few years ago, but as is the nature of Zionist trolling they have fallen in the same trap and unwittingly made the same mistake. Too bad not all of their followers are brain dead, and once again the Israeli army has its lies exposed.